Evaluation of Gaussian approximations for data assimilation in reservoir models

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 851-885

  Iglesias, Marco A ^a   Law, Kody J H ^b   Stuart, Andrew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Inverse modelling; Reservoir characterization; Uncertainty quantification

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; INVERSE ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; MARKOV CHAIN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84884593750     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-013-9359-x     Document Type: Article

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